Leading global analysts Bloomberg New Energy Finance have delivered a withering critique of Australia’ renewable energy policies, describing them as short sighted and problematic. Kobad Bhavnagri, the chief analyst for BNEF in Australia, says investment...

In the 2014 Annual Residential Electricity Price Trends report, electricity prices in South Australia were expected to fall in 2015 and remain flat in 2016/17 thanks to a combination of falling demand, lower wholesale electricity...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to create a program offering grants to community groups for the installation of solar panels and battery systems. There’s a small catch, though – re-election. The program, which...

The fight for supremacy in Australia’s electricity market is shifting away from wholesale markets and retail tariff wars to inside the home – and the two biggest forces of the Australian energy market are now lining up...

The refusal of Australian utilities to recognise the value of local generation – such as rooftop solar and battery storage – means that they are undermining their own business models and effectively accelerating the “death...

The Queensland Labor government says it plans to tackle the Turnbull Coalition government over plans to remove grant funding for large scale renewable energy investments, saying it threatens to hold back the nascent large scale...

The connection between scientific research and government action appears to have a long way to go. Financial advocacy group Market Forces has revealed that the four major banks of Australia (Commonwealth, ANZ, NAB and Westpac)...

With a federal election due to occur later this year, buzz around the vital election topics, promises and vote-winning points is already beginning. There’s no doubt that renewable energy is highly topical for both the...

Oil, coal and natural gas have powered the U.S. energy demand for generations. Yet now that the U.N. Climate Change Conference appears to have set a landmark agreement, can clean energy replace carbon-intensive sources going forward?...

The Victorian Labor government has recently announced changes in their regulations that will now allow households of the state to obtain rooftop solar systems with minimal up-front costs by leasing deals through solar companies.

While the United Nations Climate Change Conference is currently underway in Paris, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called for the immediate implementation of carbon tax globally as he believes it is the only way to...

At the Paris Climate Conference, leaders from the African Union have announced ambitious goals to progress renewable energy in their struggling nations.The project will be called The African Renewable Energy Initiative and will be hosted...

Synergy's proposal to effectively double the cost of connecting WA solar households to the grid with a sun tax has been slammed as unjust. Synergy chairman Lyndon Rowe floated the proposal just last week. As...

Consumer groups are joining the fight in court against a proposal by South Australia's main utility to charge homes with solar installed extra for the network. South Australia Power Network unveiled their plan earlier this...